10-letter words containing a, s, c, e, n, t
- intercaste — Sociology. an endogamous and hereditary social group limited to persons of the same rank, occupation, economic position, etc., and having mores distinguishing it from other such groups. any rigid system of social distinctions.
- interclass — between classes; involving different classes.
- interfaces — Plural form of interface.
- interlaces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interlace.
- interspace — a space between things.
- intimacies — Plural form of intimacy.
- inviscated — Simple past tense and past participle of inviscate.
- isocyanate — a salt or ester of isocyanic acid.
- jackstones — Plural form of jackstone.
- kinematics — the branch of mechanics that deals with pure motion, without reference to the masses or forces involved in it.
- lac insect — a scale insect, Laccifer lacca, of southeast Asia, the female of which secretes lac, a substance used in the preparation of shellac, wax, etc.
- lactescent — becoming or being milky.
- lacustrine — of or relating to a lake.
- lance rest — a support for a couched lance, fixed to the breastplate of a suit of armor.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- latescence — the state or quality of being latescent
- launceston — a city on N Tasmania.
- lemniscate — a plane curve generated by the locus of the point at which a variable tangent to a rectangular hyperbola intersects a perpendicular from the center to the tangent. Equation: r 2 = 2 a 2 cosθ.
- linecaster — the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.
- machinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of machinate.
- manchester — a city in NW England: connected with the Mersey estuary by a ship canal (35½ mi. [57 km] long).
- marcescent — withering but not falling off, as a part of a plant.
- meatscreen — a metal screen placed behind meat that is being roasted in order to reflect the fire's heat
- mechanists — Plural form of mechanist.
- melanistic — Ethnology. the condition in human beings of having a high amount of melanin granules in the skin, hair, and eyes.
- mendicants — Plural form of mendicant.
- mint sauce — Mint sauce is a sauce made from mint leaves, vinegar, and sugar, which is often eaten with lamb.
- mischanter — mishanter.
- miscreants — Plural form of miscreant.
- monstrance — a receptacle in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration.
- myasthenic — Of, pertaining to, or suffering from myasthenia.
- narcotised — Simple past tense and past participle of narcotise.
- narcotizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of narcotize.
- nectareous — nectarous.
- nectarines — Plural form of nectarine.
- nematocyst — an organ in coelenterates consisting of a minute capsule containing an ejectable thread that causes a sting.
- neofascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- neoplastic — the theory and practice of the de Stijl school, chiefly characterized by an emphasis on the formal structure of a work of art, and restriction of spatial or linear relations to vertical and horizontal movements as well as restriction of the artist's palette to black, white, and the primary colors.
- new castle — a city in W Pennsylvania.
- newscaster — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- nictitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nictitate.
- nightscape — a scene viewed at night, especially as represented in art.
- nonascetic — a person who is not an ascetic
- nonelastic — capable of returning to its original length, shape, etc., after being stretched, deformed, compressed, or expanded: an elastic waistband; elastic fiber.
- nuthatches — Plural form of nuthatch.
- obstinance — The characteristic of being obstinate.
- octonaries — Plural form of octonary.
- opalescent — exhibiting a play of colors like that of the opal.
- open-stack — having or being a system of library management in which patrons have direct access to stacks for browsing and selecting books; open-shelf.
- osteomancy — A kind of divination by means of bones.